Module 5: young people, society and AOD: facilitator's guide

Module 5 of Training frontline workers: young people, alcohol and other drugs explores some of the reasons why young people may use drugs and focuses on the social and economic factors that influence drug use. It also contains information about drug use patterns and legislation and policy relevant to young people and drug use.

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Project outline

This project, an initiative of the National Illicit Drug Strategy, has developed teaching and learning resources to assist frontline workers address the need of young people on issues relating to illicit drugs. They will support a training organisation in the delivery of training. The modules explore work with young people, drug use and suitable intervention approaches.

Project management

The development of the resources has been managed by:

New South Wales Technical and Further Education Commission (TAFE NSW) through the Community Services, Health, Tourism and Hospitality Educational Services Division

Drug and Alcohol Office (Western Australia)

The Northern Territory Health Service.

Acknowledgements

The original consultations, writing, practitioner review and revision of the materials has involved a large number of services including:

Alison Bell Consultancy

Centre for Community Work Training, Association of Children's Welfare Agencies (NSW)

Community and Health Services (Tas)

Community Education and Training (ACT)

Curtin University

Department of Community Services (NSW)

Department of Juvenile Justice (NSW)

Drug and Alcohol Office (WA)

Health Department of NSW

National Centre for Education and Training in Addictions

New England Institute of TAFE, Tamworth Campus

Northern Territory Health Service NSW

Association for Adolescent Health

Ted Noff's Foundation (NSW)

The Gap Youth Centre (NT)

Turning Point (Vic)

Youth Substance Abuse Service

Youth Action Policy Association (Vic)

This project was funded and supported by the National Illicit Drugs Strategy through the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing.Top of page

The materials

The final product, provided for distribution on CD-Rom, consists of:

a facilitator and learner guide for 12 modules

a support text for workplace learning

overhead transparencies using Microsoft PowerPoint for each module to support facilitators who choose face-to-face delivery.

Each document has been provided in:

Acrobat (pdf) format to ensure stability

a Microsoft Word version to enable organisations to amend, add and customise for local needs.

The primary user would be a facilitator/trainer/training organisation that would distribute the learning materials to the learners. They can be used in traditional face to face or through a supported distance mode.

Materials have been prepared to allow direct colour laser printing or photocopying depending on the size and resources of the organisation. It is not envisaged that learners would be asked to print materials.

Assessment

Where assessment of competence is implemented training organisations are reminded of the basis principles upon which assessment should be based:

Assessment is an integral part of learning. Participants, through assessment, learn what constitutes effective practice.

Assessment must be reliable, flexible, fair and valid.

To be reliable, the assessment methods and procedures must ensure that the units of competence are applied consistently.

To be flexible, assessment should be able to take place on-the-job, offthe- job or in a combination of both. They should be suitable for a variety of learning pathways including work-based learning and classroom based learning.